Jemelle
Jemelle is a village in the Belgian municipality of Rochefort in the province of Namur in the Walloon Region .
The village is about three kilometers east of Rochefort at the confluence of the rivers Wamme and Lomme . In the village there is a station on the Namur – Luxembourg railway line . The area belonging to the district covers 9.68 km².
history
In 1813 the community was dissolved and Jemelle was incorporated into Rochefort. In 1817, however, Jemelle became independent again, before it came back to the municipality of Rochefort as part of a local reform in 1977.
In the years 1865 to 1868 the Saint Margaret Church was built. In 1924 Léon Lhoist founded the company Établissements Léon Lhoist from which the Lhoist Group, now known as the world's largest manufacturer of lime products, emerged . In 1971 the Jemelle megalithic complex was discovered near the Lamsoul farm and excavated in 1976/77. From 1988 a track bus test route was operated between Jemelle and Rochefort .
Personalities
The Belgian politician François Bellot (* 1954) was born near Jemelle.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Schwegler: Chronology and regionality of Neolithic collective graves in Europe and Switzerland . LIBRUM Publishers & Editors, Hochwald (Switzerland) 2016, ISBN 978-3-9524542-0-6 ( unibas.ch [PDF]).
Coordinates: 50 ° 10 ′ N , 5 ° 16 ′ E